[BenLurkin]

Is the Sudentanland worth a war?

Why die for Danzig?

[jamaksin]

Or, lest we forget ... 1960 Presidential campaign - QUEMOY and MATSU came into sharp focus.

[LowTaxesEqualsProsperity]

No one lives on these rocks that China and Japan have disputed for centuries.

[steelhead_trout]

“Is the Sudentanland worth a war?

Why die for Danzig?”

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They weren’t worth a war, as far as the USA was concerned. Oahu was, but it was attacked by the Japanese. Germany, led by a man with the strategic sense of a block of wood, and which was already at war with the Britsh Empire and the Soviet Union, decided to declare war on the USA as well. Smart move ... NOT!